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I'm not a Tanker, but I think the Bradley 25mm cutting through MBT armour makes the tank debate like the battleship debate. You can add more armour, and try to make the ship more survivable, or you can go to active defense systems and make more ships that use missiles and surprise as their...

Except, that's not how any of it works in the real world. Voters care about green uniforms enforcing laws, particularly if they are riding in green trucks/APCs while doing it. Jen Gerson of The Line perfectly summed up my thoughts on a few posters on here with this little quote: The...

Those discussions a few years back lead to a few agreements that are of little interest to the public or most posters here, but Canada and the UK have been cooperating more closely in the arctic than before. It's not secret, but it is dry and not particularly related to subs.

I wonder if the depth and breadth of the files will result in setting up a French Revolution style backlash against the elites in America.

Yeah, but that's a phone call in October, vs. giving the government a "win" right now.

This is the part I think that is driving a fair amount of non-registration at this time. Why register when you might get nothing. If I'm getting nothing back, I might as well cut the rifle up myself and at least have that satisfaction.

If TPS and Toronto City council cared about speeding in school zones, they'd find a way to enforce it with real penalties, not just a camera flash and a pathetic fine. Also, Toronto spent 36 million a year to contract out the speed camera enforcement to a private company. Those cameras...

So America's "Buy American" is America taking it's ball and going home? Most serious nations plan to buy a lot of their kit domestically, despite the increased costs, because it makes sense strategically. Nations got out of the habit because America used buying defense kit as a sweetener for...

I think it could be possible to do, but I doubt it will happen in our lifetimes. Even in war you aren't going to trust a system to just fire long range weapons at every contact that seems like it might be an enemy. That's how you lose even more expensive and hard to replace vessels and crews...

Maybe don't... They are called jets, we have them. We have slow and fast things because both slow and fast things have different roles. Trying to make a fast thing do the job of a slow thing is a fool's errand. A missile isn't just slightly faster than a MQ-9B, they move multiple times...

You're mixing a few things together here... 1. Remote autonomous sensors will be the tripwire that indicates something needs further tracking/investigation. 2. An ASROC is a weapon you fire once to hit a target, like a harpoon, NSM, or ESSM, they don't loiter waiting for a target to appear...

Maybe because <10 is less embarrassing than putting in 1 or 2?

We are unlikely to be engaging targets detected by remote sensors any time soon, the risk of error is too high. The remote systems let us know to go take a closer look, then the crewed/uncrewed systems under direct control will take over. None of that requires a 1000km ASROC.

I'm not at ASW expert by any means, but I suspect nothing wants to linger around a confirmed enemy sub contact for that long. It makes more sense to have the unit engaging the sub much closer to the one detecting it/the target.

Subs move, so even a hypersonic missile 1000km away is going to miss the target.

Agreed, though not because I think they are all or even mostly bad, but because all it takes is one zealot/bad one to ruin your day and potentially life.

Not to derail this thread, but I wonder how much of the LPCs boost in AB is a direct result of the behaviour and speech of the AB separatist movement. The more the cozying up to America happens, the more likely it is that people will pull away from a party too closely associated with separatists.

I'm guessing the collections will be done at selected sights, rather than travelling door to door. Based on the email today it seems each registered person will receive an email or link with details for drop-off.

Lots of people have/had previously non-restricted firearms like Tavors, AR 180 variants, etc., so the RCMP would have no idea who has them. They just sent an email to everybody with a PAL, to make sure nobody had an excuse if they are caught after 30 Oct with a now prohibited firearm. I'm...

When I lived in Victoria there were plenty of people who had cool NR guns that had them for fun out at Vic Fish and Game, other ranges in the area, or the local crown land shooting spots, but weren't what you would consider "dyed in the wool traditional conservatives"... On the contrary, many...